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A vision of Britain through time
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LEVISHAM, a parish in Pickering district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Whitby railway, 6 miles NNE of Pickering. It has a station on the railway; and its Post town is Pickering, under York. Acres, 2,962. Real property, £1,029. Pop., 148. Houses, 30. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to James Walker, Esq. Levisham Bottoms are a cultivated and well-wooded vale, traversed by the railway, and interesting to geologists. ' ' The sections of strata about the Levisham station, ''says Professor Phillips, "are very instructive parts of the peculiar oolitic coalfield, showing, in downward order, the coralline oolite, calcareous grit, Oxford clay, Kelloway's rock, cornbrash, sandstones and shales, with plants, marks of coal, and granular ironstone of great richness, in thin irregular beds and nodules. ''The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £120. Patron, the Rev. R. Skelton. The church was rebuilt in 1804. There is an endowed school with £15 a year.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Levisham CP/AP Pickering RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Levisham |
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